OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palestine Exploration Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan	14
Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel	5
Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape	4
Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine Exploration Fund	4
Biblical Ziklag: the Case for Khirbet er-Ra‘i	4
Jerusalem’s Northern Defences Under Hadrian	2
Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology	2
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan	2
Notes and News	2
‘Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9:2): A New Tetrarchic boundary stone from Abel Beth Maacah	2
Life at the Dead Sea: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac), February 21–24, 2018, Chemnitz	2
Hidden in plain sight	2
Acknowledgements	2
Books Received	1
Guest Editorial: The Rockefeller Museum	1
The Level V City Wall at Lachish	1
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah	1
Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan	1
Reading between the tesserae: The Tabgha mosaics’ stages, patronage, and authenticity re-examined	1
The Four-Chambered Gate at Megiddo	1
The cultural biography of two volute capitals at Iron Age Hazor	1
A Mameluke-period terracotta juglet from Umm Zweitineh, Jordan	1
The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible , by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, The Penn	1
The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan	1
Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 198	1

Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837	1
A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’	0
Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism	0
‘I am sorry for troubling you with the bother of replying! But I really want to know’: An unpublished letter by T. E. Lawrence to Max van Berchem about a Mameluke inscription from Naqb (Sinai/Negev)	0
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City	0
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth	0
The Fifth Milestation from Tiberias: A Newly Discovered Milestone in the Gennesaret Valley Illumines the Roman Arterial Network	0
A Note on the Dedication of the Churches in Shivta	0
Animals in the Ancient World: The Levett Bestiary ,	0
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel	0
Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank	0
‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin	0
Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939	0
The Murder of James Leslie Starkey near Lachish. A different view from a Colonial Office file	0
John Bartlett, unintentional mentor	0
‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian	0
Building 101 at Tel ‘Eton, the Low Chronology, and the Perils of a Bias-Perpetuating Methodology: A Response and a Proposal for the Study of All the Phases in the History of Buildings	0
Books Received	0
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry	0
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City	0
The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues	0
Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology , by Kay Prag	0
Old Ground Plan - New Insights: The Central Church Compound in Shivta Revised	0
The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis	0
The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian	0
An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir , by Eric M. Meyers, Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1922, xiii + 218 pp, 34	0
A Dedication ‘to the Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian’s Sōtēria : Saluting the Emperor’s Rural Passage through Syria-Palestina	0
The Unique Specialised Economy of Judah under Assyrian Rule and its Impact on the Material Culture of the Kingdom	0
Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms	0
Colonial Archaeology in Palestine in the 1930s: The First Expedition to Lachish	0
Books Received	0
The Iron Age IIA ‘Benyaw Inscription’ on a Jar from Tel Abel Beth Maacah	0
Georgian Graffito from Nessana, Dating to the ‘Dark Age’ of Christianity in Palestine	0
Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877	0
A Chalcolithic presence east of the Sea of Galilee: The earliest finds on Mt. Sussita	0
The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study	0
Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board	0
Notes and News	0
Acknowledgements	0
Chronology and Strategic Significance of the Hilltop Fortress, Umm Tawabin in Jordan: Some Conclusions from the 2015-2018 Survey and Excavations by the Ghor As-Safi Project	0
Rev. Professor John R Bartlett	0
Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis	0
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit	0
The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022	0
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge	0
Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life	0
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel	0
Decorated Bone Tube Manufacture in Early Bronze Age Israel: Experimental Analysis of Bone Preparation and Incising	0
Fibulae of the Southern Levant During the Iron Age II: Chronology, Inter-Regional Connectivity and Performance	0
The End of Arabah Copper Production and the Destruction of Gath: A Critique and an Alternative Interpretation	0

A Roman Bronze Figurine of a Seated Infant from Shivta in the Negev	0
Moses Wilhelm Shapira, Hermann Weser and the Moab Expedition: Provenance Study of the Moabitica	0
Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan)	0
Kom Tuman II: Late Period to Graeco-Roman Pottery, Volumes I and II	0
Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology	0
Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023	0
Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods	0
A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period	0
Acknowledgements	0
Temporal change in traditional knowledge and use of wild plants in Artas, Palestine	0
In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology	0
Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History	0
Some thoughts about Words	0
Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire	0
On the Origins of the Tel Nami Pyxides	0
An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan	0
The Price of Conflict: Devastation of Cultural Heritage in War and Political Strife, the West Bank as a Case Study	0
Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches	0
Acknowledgements	0
The Identity of the Leaders of the Second Jewish Revolt and Bar Koseba's True Role in the Insurrection	0
Establishing a baseline for the study of maritime cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip	0
On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel	0
Bronze Anklets from Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley): New Light on Exchange and Identity Construction in the Iron I	0
The Meṣad Ḥashavyahu Ostracon in its Regional, Economic, and Political Context	0
Beit Loya: Historicising Marginal Sites in Late Islamic Rural Palestine	0
An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome	0
Professor Alan Millard	0
Barbara Lee Johnson (1943–2022)	0
Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha	0
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt	0
Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni	0
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor	0
Assessing the PEF collection of photographic works by the Zangaki brothers	0
The Changing Character of Iron Age Jerusalem as Revealed in the Ophel Excavations	0
An inscription from the Badia: Documenting evidence for the plague in the Mameluke Period	0
Preserving Palestinian Cultural Heritage: ‘The Memory of History’ Project	0
An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem	0
Books Received	0
Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on theVia MarisSouth of Caesarea	0
Books Received	0
An Ancient Mega-Project in North Jordan: The Fortress of Tell Ushayer	0
How to Date a City Wall? The Case Study of Middle Bronze Age Lachish	0
Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research,	0
The Urban Renovation of Samaria–Sebaste of the 2nd and 3rd centuriesce: Observations on some architectural artefacts	0
Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal	0
Acknowledgements	0